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Freya Berry

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery

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Freya Berry always loved stories, but it took several years as a journalist to realise she loves the kind of truth that lies in fiction, not reality. (Or, to put it another way, making stuff up is more fun.)

Her first novel The Dictator's Wife, a high-stakes exploration of power, glamour and complicity, was shortlisted for the Authors' Club First Novel Award, a pick for the BBC's flagship book show Between The Covers, and The New European's 2022 novel of the year.

In her second novel, The Birdcage Library, an adventuress discovers an old book containing clues about the disappearance of a woman who vanished 50 years before. Set between a Scottish castle in the 1930s and an exotic animal emporium in Gilded Age New York, it's a twisting Gothic ...more

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The Birdcage Library
3.76 avg rating — 2,001 ratings — published 2023 — 9 editions
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“The joy of books is that adults will not judge you for your rapacity; it is the only vice that may be entertained quite respectably in public.”
― Freya Berry, The Birdcage Library
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“We had reduced nature to what we could extract from it; eternal growth was portrayed not as a fantasy but as the mightiest of pursuits.”
― Freya Berry, The Birdcage Library
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“despise how our capitalist system conspires to give the notion that the world is stocked with a limitless supply of marvels”
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